The Thebans expel the Spartan garrison

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Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Theban, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: victory
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: flight, Direct Consequence: defeat
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Agesilaus 24.1Plutarch Agesilaus 24.1 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Thebai (Thebes)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	379 B.C.
Context :	civilian revolt
Motivation :	political
Original Text :	ὡς γὰρ ἐξέβαλον οἱ Θηβαῖοι τὴν φρουρὰν καί τὴν πόλιν ἠλευθέρωσαν, ἐγκαλῶν αὐτοῖς ὅτι τὸν Ἀρχίαν καὶ τὸν Λεοντίδαν ἀπεκτόνεσαν, ἔργῳ μὲν τυράννους, λόγῳ δὲ πολεμάρχους ὄντας, ἐξήνεγκε πόλεμον πρὸς αὐτούς.
Translation :	For when the Thebans expelled the Spartan garrison and liberated their city, he charged them with the murder of Archias and Leontidas, who were really tyrants, though polemarchs in name, and levied war upon them.
Edition :	Plutarch Lives V: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 87), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1961 (first ed. 1917).
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